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About half an hour into our trip, I find an alternative-rock station that I can groove to. It's called Fred, and it plays songs by Erasure, The Cure, Social Distortion. But wait! Why is my friend switching to that awful techno music? Luckily, we agree on some things. We both like CNN Headline News in small doses and classical music in the evening. We sorely miss National Public Radio (which XM's competitor, Sirius, plans to offer when it launches later this year) but settle for the BBC. And we have a weakness for love songs...
...downside is that a lot of people aren't getting another important treatment for depression: face-to-face therapy, or what they used to call "the talking cure." Over the same 10-year period, the J.A.M.A. article reported, the percentage of patients in therapy dropped from 71.1% to 60.2%, and the average number of annual treatment visits declined from 12.6 to fewer than nine. The fact is, pills are a lot less expensive than therapists, which may explain why managed-care outfits make it so hard for patients to get the therapy they feel they need. The danger, critics...
...early to know whether this strategy will work against HIV, but it is already working against another deadly virus. Ebola, though it has claimed far fewer victims than HIV, has enormous potential for devastation. There is no cure or vaccine for it--but in a recent trial, Nabel's group has shown that DNA priming can protect monkeys from Ebola...
...that stinking rose! What makes garlic--and your breath--smell so bad is precisely what makes it so healthful. The odor factors are sulfur-based compounds known as allyl sulfides. Health gurus promote garlic as a cure-all, which it certainly is not, but many scientists agree that allyl sulfides and other phytochemicals in garlic may help protect the heart. Studies show that the sulfides can reduce cholesterol and may make the blood less sticky. Scientists are fairly confident that garlic also has antibacterial and antifungal powers. Preliminary reports even suggest that garlic may block the parasites that cause malaria...
Walking won't cure everything that ails you, of course, and nothing happens overnight. "People who have never exercised regularly should not think that in a week they'll solve their problems by walking," says Dr. David Curb of the University of Hawaii. But they can expect a regular walking program to serve them well into...